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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Apple is not doing a game streaming service.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Why does he assume that the responsible engineers are aware of the bug?
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
“MineTime is a calendar built on Electron, allowing it to run natively as desktop application on Windows, Mac and - yes! - Linux.” So, not a native app then.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
the preloading and caching seems like a marginal speed boost. the main win from AMP is just the stripped-down format, which does not require the cache.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
right. and SEPs only have value because they are included in a standard. not all of the Q patents at issue are technically SEPs though. That said, just because you have a patent, doesn’t mean you can behave anticompetitively around licensin
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
correct. turning off “location history” only turns off the visualization, not tracking. your location is still associated with each piece of google activity—searches etc. there is no way to totally turn off location tracking other than tuni
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Email should be plain text. HTML in email itself was a terrible idea, though not as bad as AMP in email.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
This is very cool. My personal favorite Aphex track is Donkey Rhubarb if you're feeling ambitious.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
My first pair of Airpods, even after 2 years, still worked for hours on a charge. And of course “charging” just means putting them in your pocket. I just wish I had waited to run them through the laundry until today. I bought a new pair jus
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Liquid Text is one of the cleverest apps I have ever used. And PDF Expert also rules
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Hardware-wise Samsung's OLED tablets are nice, especially for reading, but it's hard to justify spending a lot on one given the weak software. I think that the Lenovo Tab 4 8 is a decent tablet, much better than the Amazon Fires b
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Having the cheaper iPads use lightning makes sense as long as the phones keep using it. I personally would love to see USB C across the board but I think normal people would scream bloody murder if Apple tried to phase out lightning.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Not just in the screen, but it would need the inductive charging magnet system, which seems likely to be pretty expensive. The new iPads do work with the Logitech Crayon, however, which is good for education. The Apple Pencil is designed
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
I stopped using a laptop a while ago. For me, when I need to do complicated work I sit down at a desk with my 30” monitor and clacky keyboard. But on the go and for day-to-day tasks all I need is my 12.9” iPad Pro which, as a bonus, is s mu
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Individually negotiated confidential deals are not the same as open APIs and protocols which is where alternative clients normally come into play. And the “alternative client” stuff doesn’t even apply to Amazon, Bing etc
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
If you want an editor that is fast with large files and doesn’t require 100 plugins, check out BBEdit.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Voice is mostly inconvenient and slow unless you have certain disabilities, at times when your hands are otherwise occupied (driving, doing the dishes, maybe when out-and-about via Siri or Google Assistant) and for the basic in-home stuff t
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Android tablet apps have always sucked because Android was designed with the expectation that you can easily and automatically scale apps to different sizes. It turns out, you can--within particular size classes. And Android's ability
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
This guy has some pretty weird opinions. Not only do I much prefer macOS's accurate font rendering aesthetically, the entire issue of sub pixel aliasing is moot with high-DPI screens anyway.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
I remember having this argument with people who couldn't understand why I preferred using iTunes (Swinsian, these days) to organize a collection of thousands of albums, with automatic sorting based on metadata. File systems just don&#
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
I need 365 since it can do some things Google docs can’t do. But, a while ago there was a widespread bug making is so that some percentage of people who had used the Mac or iOS apps couldn’t sign in. It was never officially acknowledged, an
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
I’m not a fan of Gmail either, mostly because it lacks push vis iOS Mail (which Fastmail supports, so it is possible), and its non-standard tagging system doesn’t not play well with any third-party client that does not take extraordinary st
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18379394
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
this app does one thing I like—it launches with the keyboard active. at least sometimes. I use Drafts specifically because it has this feature. Firefox Focus does too. I wish the Google app would always launch with the keyboard up.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
“Arrived damaged” could be borderline as it sounds like a review of the shipping process and not the product. Not sure what’s going on with that first one though.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Pagination is better that scrolling on mobile devices. I often prefer it on a desktop screen as well. I read PDFs all the time on my iPad Pro. They fit the form factor perfectly.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
I've been using Instapaper since the day it came out on the app store (never saw the point of the web version). Pinterest has been the worst owner! There used to be periodic improvements and updates. There's not even a full bla
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
iOS 12 automatically copies SMS codes to the clipboard. That said if you can avoid it don’t use SMS for 2 factor.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
I use a 12.9” iPad Pro for most tablet purposes which is superior for me for everything except ebooks. It’s perfect for comics and PDFs and many games and it’s my laptop replacement when I travel (as an Old I prefer a real desktop computer
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
In think 8” tablets are a good form factor for content consumption (ebooks, movies, some games) but Android tablets always fall short even then. You need a good screen, especially for text. The 2015 iPad Mini 4 is still much better than any

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